Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin (5 July 1857-20 June 1933) was a Communist Party of Germany politician who was a member of the Reichstag for the KPD from 1920 to 1933; she also helped found the Spartacus League, and in 1911 she organized the first International Women's Day.

Biography
Clara Zetkin was born on 5 July 1857 in Wiederau, Saxony, German Empire to a Protestant German schoolteacher and a French mother. Zetkin joined the labor movement and women's movement in Germany and joined the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD), going into exile in France due to the banning of all socialism in her country. On 19 March 1911 Zetkin held the first International Women's Day in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Zetkin was a cofounder of the Spartacus League in 1915 to oppose Germany's involvement in World War I. In 1920, she was elected to the Reichstag for the Communist Party of Germany, and she left in 1933 after the Reichstag fire and the outlawing of the KPD by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party. Zetkin fled to the Soviet Union and died in Arkhangelskoye, near Moscow, on 20 June 1933.